Name: Chlorobium limicola Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: li.mi’co.la. L. masc. n. limus, mud; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, dweller; from L. masc./fem. n. incola, dweller; L. masc./fem. n. limicola, the mud-dweller (nominative in apposition)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: k^hlo-RO-bi-um li-MI-ko-la, neuter

Type strain: DSM 245; GHS; NBRC 103803; SMG 245

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CP001097 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Nadson GA. The morphology of inferior Algae. III. Chlorobium limicola Nads., the green chlorophyll bearing microbe (in Russian). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique, St. Petersbourg 1906; 6:190.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Imhoff 2003 Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:941-951. 🇩🇪 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1703-1705.
    Notes:
    • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Nadson GA. The morphology of inferior Algae. III. Chlorobium limicola Nads., the green chlorophyll bearing microbe (in Russian). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique, St. Petersbourg 1906; 6:190.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 122 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Chlorobium limicola f. thiosulfatophilum" Ivanovskii 1975	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nadson GA. The morphology of inferior Algae. III. Chlorobium limicola Nads., the green chlorophyll bearing microbe (in Russian). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique, St. Petersbourg 1906; 6:190.

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